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Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult...
...logjam of critically ill patients who are now beginning to die, as it takes several weeks for SARS to claim its victims. More unsettling are reports from several laboratories that the coronavirus responsible is mutating almost continuously as it spreads, raising the possibility that certain strains may be more vicious than others...
Nearly as vicious as the Dartmouth bats Saturday were the jeers shouted by the Dartmouth crowd...
More recently, Lewis’ decision to ban kegs at Harvard athletic events came under vicious student criticism...
...inauspicious beginning. The story led the front page of the Yale Daily News on April 9, and then, as if on cue, a rash of more intimidating incidents began being reported. A vicious, hate-spewing message directed at anti-war protesters was allegedly scrawled onto a poster in front of the Afro-American Cultural Center; a student returning from a vigil for Iraqi civilian casualties said he was spit on; students who had hung flags upside-down in solidarity with Lo reported intruders turning the flags right-side up or stealing them. In two days, a total of six incidents...